Turn It Up A Notch Radio Presents the Loyalty is Everything Tour dedicated to Breast Cancer Awareness

Join Turn It Up a Notch Radio this Friday, February 28, in the launch of the LOYALTY IS EVERYTHING tour, which is dedicated to the Breast Cancer Society. The tour end September 12, 2014.Live Broadcast on-location in Manhattan with VIP Guests including

DMX Wife Tashera Simmons

Chi Chi from The Hit Movie Scarface

Coalition Forces

TV/Radio Media Mogul Ken Murph

Straight Stuntin Magazine Model Casey The Model

Star Delights

Flaco Coquito

What's Happening Now New York City Magazine

CW-One Ent.

Yung Ciar

Big Migz & Ben Hamean (Turmoil Projects)

Female Rapper Dee Dee

B-Dot Dellinger

Yung Fellz

Videocity TV

Multihop TV

#AllMediaLinked

#100Clan

WBLS

Live Band Edwin Vazquez

Many More TBA

Proceeds from the event will be donated to Breast Cancer Society. 

For more information contact 718-239-9200

Tune In Live at www.damatrixstudios.com

Day One of the 17th Annual Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project Economic Summit

(New York, NY) February 11, 2014 – The Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund kicked off the 17th Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit, February 11 - February 13, 2014 at The Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, 811 Seventh Avenue at 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10019. This year’s summit, "50 Years After the Civil Rights Act: The Unfinished Agenda for Economic Justice...” focuses on the decline in black businesses, lack of blacks on corporate and non-profit boards, exclusion of minority firms in IPS, unemployment and more.

Day one kicked off with the Youth Summit and Career Symposium. The evening’s opening session moderated by George E. Curry, Editor-in-Chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), focused on the 30^th anniversary of Rev. Jackson’s historic 1984 Presidential run and the subsequent 88’ campaign.

Day one of the summit closed with an opening reception featuring a “Tribute to the Black Media.”  The media honored included: Johnson Publishing Company represented by Todd E. Brown, EVP and Chief Revenue Officer; National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), represented by Cloves C. Campbell; The Positive Community, represented by Editor-in-Chief, Jean Nash Wells and Publisher Adrian A. Council, Sr.; Black Enterprise, represented by Earl G. “Butch” Graves, Jr.; the  Daily Challenge, publisher Thomas Watkins, Jr., represented by Joan Allen and The New York Amsterdam News, represented by Publisher, Elinor R. Tatum.

TODAY, Wednesday, February 12^th at 10:30 a.m. EST, Rev. Jackson will hold a press conference to release a study and scoreboard on 160 major corporations, based on actual transactions, titled, “Minority Inclusion in Debt Capital Markets: A Ranking of Corporate Issuers.” [More...]

Quench Natural Beauty Boutique Promotes, Educates, and Motivates about the Beauty of "Natural Hair"

Quench Natural Beauty Boutique (QuenchSC) is Columbia, SC,  first specialty beauty supply store for more than 53,000 individuals in the capital city with naturally afro-ethnic textured hair.  With their intimate knowledge of the culture surrounding afro-ethnic hair and the significant role it plays in lives of "natural" hair individuals, QuenchSC is dedicated to supporting its community even beyond their hair care needs.  QuenchSC regular in-store services and special community events promotes positive images and dialogue about natural hair, educate the community on healthy hair practices, advocate the use of quality natural hair products, and also serve as a space for building healthy self- and group-esteem.

Today, QuenchSC announces their contestants participating in the Columbia, SC, first Miss Naturally Crowned Carolina to celebrate the power and beauty of women who are unafraid to express themselves authentically and unapologetically.  The pageant  provides a wide-reaching platform to promote positive images and dialogue about natural hair, while helping celebrate a spirit of scholarship, entrepreneurship, and authenticity in its communities.

Miss Naturally Crowned Carolina has also landed the good graces of the nation's first and most prestigious pageant for women of color, Miss Black America. The Miss Black America pageant was founded in 1968 by Philadelphia entrepreneur, J. Morris Anderson. Miss Black America helped in motivating the careers of several famous women of color, including Oprah Winfrey (1971 Contestant, Tennessee) Host of the Oprah Winfrey Show, Founder of Harpo Productions (OWN Network), Actor, and Philanthropist.

Miss Naturally Crowned Carolina will be held April 12, 2014 at the S.C Department of Archives and History. 12 finalist from Richland and Lexington counties will compete for the title and crown as well as for $1000 grand prize scholarship or non-equity start-up investment to the grand prize winner and $750 and $500  to the first and second runners-up, respectively, also to put towards their education or for starting their own business. 

For more information on Quench Natural Beauty Boutique, please visit www.quenchsc.com. For more information for Miss Naturally Crowned Carolina, visit www.naturallycrowned.com.

  

Art Soiree Fine Arts Series will feature Nadia Janjua

This Friday, February 7, 2014, Art Soiree Fine Arts Series will feature Nadia Janjua. Ms. Janjua is an Artist, Architect, and an Art Educator based in the Washington, D.C. area. Her passion to beautify the world with her hands, combined with her fascination of design and technology led her to start up an art and design-based business in 2011, called Nadia J Art (www.nadiajart.com).

REGISTER  FREE TODAY AT ArtSoiree.Eventbrite.com

2014 Latino Conference addresses the rapid growth of the Latino/Hispanic Community in Maryland.

As party of Montgomery County Leadership Summit, The Montgomery Community Media presents the 2014 Latino Conference. This conference will focus on the significant impact of the shifting demographics resulting from the rapid growth of the Latino and Hispanic community.   

Indeed, we are witnessing in Montgomery County changing needs within our communities and new interests among our neighbors.

On Monday, February 10th, we will address these issues that bring us new pride and new challenges within the Montgomery mosaic which we call home.  This Event is Sold Out. Live Streaming available at 10am at http://www.mymcmedia.org/latino-leadership-conference/

 DISTINGUISHED PRESENTERS

Mr. Juan Williams, Fox News, Political Analyst

Ms. Stephanie Valencia, Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker & former Principal Deputy Director, White House Office of Public Engagement              

Ms. Nancy Navarro, former president, Montgomery County Council

Mrs. Alma Morales Riojas, president & CEO, MANA

MODERATOR

Natalia Olson-Urtecho, Regional Administrator

   U.S. Small Business Administration, Region III

HONORARY HOST COMMITTEE:                                 

The Gazette

El Tiempo Latino

EL ZOL 107.9 FM CBS Radio, Washington DC

Montgomery Community Media

Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce                   

Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Montgomery County                                       

Latino Economic Development Center

Maryland Hispanic Business Foundation

Salvadoran American Chamber of Commerce

Montgomery County Department of Economic Development

Corporate Volunteer Council of Montgomery County

Junior Achievement of Greater Washington

17th Annual Wall Street Push Ecomonic Summit in New York Feb 11-13, 2014

The 17th Annual Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project Economic Summit will be held on Tuesday, February 11 - Thursday, February 13, 2014 at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in New York, NY. The theme is “50 YEARS AFTER THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT: The Unfinished Agenda for Economic Justice.” 

The Wall Street Project challenges corporate America to end the multi-billion-dollar trade deficit. with minority vendors and consumers and works to ensure equal opportunity for diverse employees, entrepreneurs, and consumers.

Learn more and register today at http://www.rainbowpushwallstreetproject.org.